My Best Teachers Were Saints: What Every Educator Can Learn from the Heroes of the ChurchLoyola Press, 2009年4月30日 - 320 頁 Discipline problems, self-doubt, tense meetings, classroom stress . . . Couldn’t every teacher use some saintly help? In My Best Teachers Were Saints, Swetnam focuses on fifty-two saints—many of them teachers—who faced challenges similar to those that nearly all educators face today, from indifferent students and recalcitrant colleagues to their own limitations and feelings of isolation. With the examples of saints such as Augustine, Ignatius of Loyola, and Scholastica, Swetnam eagerly shares how their words and deeds helped immensely in her own career as a teacher and how they can aid and inspire other educators as well. |
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Hard Work and Miracles | 23 |
February | 29 |
Wonder That Breaks into the Everyday | 37 |
Extreme Students | 43 |
The Role of Fearless Inquiry | 53 |
The Necessity of Reflection | 159 |
August | 165 |
On Surprising Oneself | 171 |
A Holy Insistence on High Quality | 177 |
Conversion as Just the Beginning | 183 |
The Greater Good | 189 |
September | 195 |
The Temptation to Despair | 201 |
Grunt Work | 59 |
April | 71 |
Life with Ambiguity | 83 |
From Contemplation to Action | 89 |
Healthy Individualism | 101 |
October | 103 |
Humor at Work | 107 |
The Fellowship of Suffering | 113 |
June | 119 |
Flawed Heroes | 129 |
July | 131 |
When Colleagues Disagree | 135 |
The Endless Task of Making Peace | 141 |
The Importance of Order | 147 |
Teachers as TalentSpotters | 153 |
The Right Discomfort | 207 |
The Courage to Be a Shepherd | 213 |
Unlikely Disciples | 219 |
Ego and Fear | 225 |
The Profligate | 231 |
The Real vs the Ideal | 237 |
The Case for Simple Devotion | 243 |
An Inspirational Legacy | 253 |
The Power of Joyful Optimism | 259 |
The Lost Battle | 265 |
Students Speaking Up | 271 |
December | 277 |
When the Plan Changes | 289 |
The Importance of Meeting Fundamental Needs | 295 |